RESOURCE – 5 tips for great watercolours from Caroline Furlong
SEAW Member, Caroline Furlong share her favourite tips and tricks with us 1. Great colours Keep to a limited palette of four/ five colours only. This makes the painting more unified. 2. Great sketchbooks Have a few sketchbooks on the go which are the same…
Newport Walks by Tony White
Past SEAW President, Tony White takes us through and unexpected benefit of lock-down. I have always painted and drawn. For some reason painting has taken a back seat for the last year or so, whilst I have been occupied with some print-making projects. Maybe painting…
EXPLORE – Urban sketching
During lockdown, the urbansketchers movement conducted a series of instagram interviews with some of its most well known members around the world. The result was a series of chats and challenges set by interviewees, that kept urbansketchers busy during lockdown, kept them connected and interpreted …
Two minute landscapes with Astrig Akseralian
Having been asked to write about what I have been working on in my studio has made me reflect on what has inspired me recently. Trying to put into words my feelings about this strange time and how it has affected my work, makes me…
Books as art with Sue Downie
Making books I am really taken with making books. No, I don’t mean ‘How to paint bad watercolours in 5 minutes’ but unique artwork in book form. Until I started making books I didn’t realise it was a recognised artform which gives me more pleasure…
TIPS – Nifty travel kits
In August we asked our Facebook group to let us know what their small travel watercolour kits looked like and we had a response from Janet Hathiramani “This is my very tiniest one for the days when I just want to take my kit in…